[Frank Stearns]

After having built up a large number of presets across several SoundForge tools for
many projects, I decided to dive in with the "Preset Manager" to archive and
organize those presets outside SF.

While not well documented, preset manager functionality seemed obvious: create a new
file; drag and drop selected presets from a preset list pane into the "new" pane;
save file when done.

It all seemed to work as implied by the GUI.

Here's the horrifying part: when I came back the next day for the next round
(another project's worth of presets to put into another archive file), the remaining
user presets for some of the tools WERE GONE!! Only system presets remained. I had
not deleted them, only those which had been moved to the new file pane were deleted.

SF uses a mishmash of registry and external file storage for its various active user
presets; it appears that the registry stores were the ones entirely wiped.

(Personally, I wish the hell they didn't store ANY user preset info in the
registry -- an external file collection would work sooo much better with
conventional backup and project archive strategies.)

I've not entirely qualified this problem yet and it's possible pilot error is
involved, but I don't think so. And surely a "Do you wish to erase all user
presets?" confirmation dialog box would have been nice. Sigh.

Maybe this was fixed in SF9, but between this an other gotchas (along with stability
problems that change with version to version but don't ever seem to get completely
fixed) I'm thinking it might be time to give up on SF.

Anyway, FWIW, be careful if you're planning to use the preset manager.

Frank Stearns
Mobile Audio

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[Ron Capik]

Frank Stearns wrote:


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Maybe this was fixed in SF9, but between this an other gotchas (along with stability
problems that change with version to version but don't ever seem to get completely
fixed) I'm thinking it might be time to give up on SF.

Anyway, FWIW, be careful if you're planning to use the preset manager.

Frank Stearns
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Sound Forge 9.0 started with some major bugs. They are now up to
version 9.0c and there are still a bunch of bugs that need fixing.
One in early bug some of your presets might be over written with
any tweak you may have done in using that preset. That was a
YMMV bug in that not all functions/effects exhibited that behavior.

There are still a few bugs that will crash the program and not save
the all the restore files.

There are also a lot of other oddities that can really screw with
your work flow.

I upgraded when it first came out and after three update/bug fixes
still feel like a beta tester.


Later...

Ron Capik
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